and we should totally split PC Engine from TG-16 on wikipedia.
No we shouldn't. I understand that each system has its own separate history in each country it was marketed, but Genesis doesn't have a separate page from Mega Drive. NES doesn't have a separate page from Famicom. Why should TG-16 be any different?
I agree. That would be a terrible idea.
Regarding some things I've said...I have to apologize.
$300 was not too much money for a successful system based on five year old hardware. The Duo's library is every bit as modern looking as the SNES and Genesis to the average man. Even the games written in 1988 look nothing like FC games despite them being written at the same time and by the same people who made most of their money writing FC games. Even the PCE ports of FC games look nothing like FC games. The TG-16 didn't have a NES-esque controller. The games' ROM sizes are just as large as SNES/MD stuff most of the time. Anyone who didn't buy this system was either an idiot or a SNERD, probably both. What TTI needed to do was spend 50 million on advertising to educate the masses. People should have known that the system would eventually be proven to be capable of non-flicker-based transparencies by a home brew coder exploring an undocumented feature 15 years after the system was dead (f*cking DUH!). The only reason why the people bought Genesis/SNES was because of the ads, obviously. All the games look terrible and are full of unfair cheesy tricks. Nobody actually has fun with them. I only said all those things before because I hate the PCE to death. All 4151 of my posts are about how much the PCE is a piece of shit. Also, the 3DO f*cking owns.
Or, more logically, the system did not appear, in the eyes of the average gamer, to be worth $300, even if the average gamer had $300 to spend, which they probably didn't.
I was in my late teens when the 16-bit era was in full swing. I bought the Genesis, the Duo, and the SNES, in that order. I loved all three systems although the Genesis (Sega's most popular system, but, IMO, absolutely their worst) is very much last place with the SNES and PCE taking about equal time during their normal lifespan. These days the PCE gets the most play. I couldn't afford Neo Geo until recently when the MVS market reached full depreciation. I've been posting here for seven years and before that did time on the Turbo Mailing list.
If you are mentally capable of grasping the fact that someone can love SFC as much as PCE then you can probably also understand this: The PCE is one of the greatest systems ever, possibly THE greatest, but when it comes to the TG-16 gaining mass market success, NEC/TTI was dead f*cked. This doesn't mean there was anything wrong with the system, it was just never going to happen. For the same reason that more people watched Phantom Menace than Solaris, more people bought Madden on Genesis than Lords of Thunder. ITS OKAY THIS WAY. PCE isn't the prom king, he's the poet. He's not Def Leopard, he's the Dead Kennedy's. PCE doesn't own a home, he lives in a squat in Manchester in 1977. PCE never combs his hair, but he didn't start getting fat when he turned 20 either. PCE is awesome, not
despite these things, but BECAUSE of these things.
If you can't understand these concepts then...you are doomed to a frustrating time trying to rewrite a history where the Duo had everything going for it but just got somehow magically screwed by amorphous player haters.
